The Cosmic Dancers: Exploring the Physics of Science Fiction

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Scientists believe that almost all of our body’s mass comes from the kinetic energy of the quarks and the binding energy of the gluons. I probably didn't need another review of basic force and acceleration concepts, but I can never have enough explanations of relativity, at least until I actually understand one.

These events made 1994 something of a watershed in public awareness of the Earth’s vulnerability to comet and asteroid bombardment. He became best known as one of the interviewed scientists featured in the 2004 film What the Bleep Do We Know! Oxana and Kirsten are striving to promote and grow innovative and high quality South Asian Dance through their collaborative and independent work in UK and abroad.In this article, I explore how one debate—over the role of asteroid and comet impacts in mass-extinction events—has opened a door to a new vision of the Earth, and, even perhaps, of human history.

I pretend to be one of the Constellations—Orion or Perseus—and imagine myself dancing with the other stars. It is electrons which attract protons from a neighboring atom to form the force that keeps us from walking through walls or falling through our chair. footnote 3 Indeed, the spectators at Shoemaker-Levy 9’s immolation were the first generation of humans to observe a major planetary impact since medieval monks recorded the collision of an asteroid with the moon, forming the crater Giordano Bruno, in 1178. During the summer of 1991, a few of my high school friends and I attended the first 12 dates of Morrissey’s North American Kill Uncle tour, zig-zagging across the left side of the country from San Diego to Houston and back to San Dimas.The unbelievable amount of amazing images he finds is breathtaking and me, a fellow old soul who lives in a chamber of curiosities myself.